AddressBUSINESS FUNCTION: Safety
GRADE: ML2/SB1
SALARY: £48,048 - £59,514 per annum
ROLE TYPE: Hybrid
HOURS: 37 hours per week
Is supporting and developing others ‘Your Thing’?
Working in this role you will lead the development of a proactive safety culture within the operational teams. You will provide professional and technical operational safety advice, guidance, support and leadership to the East and North East Regional Directors, Heads of Trains and Stations, Operations Managers, their teams and others across the business.
Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.
We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.
We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.
Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.
Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.
About the role:
Working in this role you'll also focus on training, coaching, and assisting local managers to develop their safety awareness and to ensure the effective implementation of safety management system procedures within their teams. This will include assessing the competence of driver team managers and others who are responsible for managing driver competence.
You will take a key role in shaping the strategy, future direction and implementation of operational standards, methods of work and general operational safety within Northern. You will actively partake in investigations, leading on them where required, fostering a culture of learning from events - ensuring the development and implementation of actions and recommendations.
As the Operational Standards Manager you'll develop and support implementation of operational best practice taking into account and participating within wider industry developments and updates to rail industry standards and the Rule Book. You will develop, review, and implement operational SMSPs including consulting with stakeholders (such as Driver Team Managers and Trade Union colleagues) on changes.
There will be the opportunity to develop management, leadership and influencing skills, to undertake technical training and lead project-based tasks as well as supporting the other Operational Standards Managers within the team broadening your operational experience and knowledge.
About you:
You need to be an outgoing, confident and an extremely well organised individual.
You should be an effective communicator, who is able to effectively influence both peers and senior managers.
We are looking for applicants who have (or are willing to work towards*) the following:
- NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent
- Level 3 Competence Assessor and completion of Company Instructor Course.
- Accredited safety auditor course
- Thorough knowledge and experience of rail operations and rules and regulations and Northern SMSPs
- Thorough knowledge and experience of non-technical skills, operation risk and error prevention techniques.
You must have or be able to hold a Green Cab Pass
You must be prepared to travel around the Northern network and visit all locations where operational activity takes place.
This role is Safety Critical
You must hold a train driver licence and certificate and have held competence in driving (or a combination of driving and driver management experience) for 4 of the previous 5 years.
Our Benefits:
Because we value our people and reward hard work, we’ve created a benefits package that we think you’ll love. So, you’ll be able to make the most of:
- Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses
- Cycle to Work Scheme - save up to 42% on the cost of a bike, while also spreading your payments throughout the year.
- Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply.
- 75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 2 years with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe.
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution
- A generous holiday entitlement - our holiday entitlements can help you feel like you can get away too.
You can find out more here.
Please note that Northern reserves the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.
However, if you miss the application window for this particular role, please keep checking back for other opportunities. We are always on the lookout for great people to join the Northern Team!
We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.
We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.
